Enable Picture-in-Picture for Vimeo, IMDB & other videos in Chrome 70

In Chrome 70, one of the latest features allows you to enable picture-in-picture. When activated, the playing video appears in a resizable floating window that can be dragged anywhere on your screen.

Experience picture-in-picture on Youtube

To see how it works, just watch any Youtube video, right-click it twice, and click the ‘Picture-in-picture’ in the context menu.

When active, a small rectangular icon appears within the tab that has the picture-in-picture video. Moreover, the video overlay can be resized and moved anywhere on the screen. Also, when Chrome is minimized, the video remains on top of everything else. It suits best for people who always do multitasking.

For now, only Youtube supports this feature and enabled by default. To apply on other video sites, a Chrome extension is required.

François Beaufort made the extension simply named it Picture-in-Picture. He posted the details on dying Google+. Good thing, it’s open source, the source code is available on Github.

This extension allows PiP mode on Vimeo, IMDB, and other video playing sites

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How to install and use Picture-in-picture extension for other video sites

To install, go to Chrome web store – extensions. Search for “Picture-in-Picture” by François Beaufort. Then click Add To Chrome, and confirm.

Once installed, an icon appears on Chrome’s toolbar.

Now, go to Vimeo, IMDB or any video sites. Then play a video and click the PiP icon. A floating video window should pop up.